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The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel’s plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply [...]Article
This article argues that Teresa Deevy’s early plays for the Abbey Theatre deliberately intervened in the cultural politics of the Irish Free State. While the focus here is on Temporal Powers(1932), Deevy’s first twoAbbey productions, The Reape[...]
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The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, dont la première se déroula à l’Abbey Theatre en 1997, trouve son origine dans une commande du théâtre national visant à célébrer le centenaire de la sortie de prison d’Oscar Wilde. Cette œuvre singulière (Tho[...]Article
This article investigates how William Butler Yeats’s interest in, and professional engagement with, modern dance affected the dramaturgical composition of his plays. Instead of focusing on individual dancers’contributions to the dance plays’ pre[...]Article
This essay draws upon the work of Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, and Germaine Greer to consider the #MeToo movement and its reflection in the work of the author’s students and the scandal at Dublin’s Gate Theatre. Taking competing conceptions of fre[...]Article
The 2019 Lyric Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival co-production of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907), directed by Oonagh Murphy, encouraged an abstract reading of the play in new political contexts. Set in the 1980s at the D[...]
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Monica FRAWLEY, Author | 2020Monica Frawley (1954-2020) was one of Ireland's best-loved and most respected theatre designers. For more than three decades her set and costume designs illuminated and defined new directions in Irish theatre, opera and dance. She worked with al[...]
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Eve PATTEN, Editor ; Claire CONNOLLY, Publishing director ; Marjorie HOWES, Publishing director | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2020
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Eric FALCI, Editor ; Paige REYNOLDS, Editor ; Claire CONNOLLY, Publishing director ; Marjorie HOWES, Publishing director | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2020
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Patrick LONERGAN, Publishing director ; Anne ENRIGHT, Author of introduction, etc. | Londres : Methuen Drama | 2020
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Olwen FOUERE, Interviewee ; Pat MURPHY, Interviewee ; Alexandra SLABY, Interviewer ; Luke DODD, Interviewer | 2020Sainte Brigid est, avec Patrick et Columba, l’un des saints patrons de l’Irlande. Sa fête, le 1er février, est la traduction chrétienne d’Imbolc, célébration païenne qui marquait le début du printemps et honorait Brigid, déesse celtique associée[...]Article
Throughout his long and varied playwriting career, Frank McGuinness has made extensive use of music from a plurality of genres. Music plays a variety of roles in the plays, supporting and enriching dramatic themes and moods. The music of Irish E[...]Article
This article explores the gender politics of a neglected one-act play by Teresa Deevy, first staged at the Abbey in 1931, that revolves around the young female protagonist's recollection of a convent production of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" in w[...]
